This dissertation explores the meaning of art and religion in fin-de-siècle Vienna
through the symphonies of the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and the philosophical
and dramatic works of the poet Siegfried ...

Eighteenth-century society experienced a transition from an emphasis on the court
to a broader social sphere, from monarchical to greater egalitarian parliamentary
decisions, a transition of influence from the landed gentry ...

Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative measures, the current study examines how
jealousy is experienced and expressed in close peer relationships during emerging
adulthood. 193 college student participants (94 males, ...

This project is a quest into the vanished world of Polish Jewry, a world that flourished
for about a millennium until its brutal annihilation in recent history. I investigate
the most abundant vestiges of that world: Poland’s ...

One of the focuses of John Howard Yoder's theology is Christian nonviolence. From
the teaching and example of Jesus, who dealt with the evil in the world and defeated
it through obedience to the will of God to the point ...

This dissertation examines the historical and theological context of the means of
grace in the theology of John Wesley with the aim of identifying its central role
in his soteriology. Examining the means of grace in its ...

The Sustainability Revolution commenced as a reaction to the environmental degradation
caused by the Industrial Revolution. The Sustainability Revolution introduced the
general public to the three pronged approach ...

This dissertation is a preliminary attempt to define and theorize Spanish literature
of the late nineteenth century from the perspective of the colonized. I take as my
starting point the novels of the Filipino writer José ...

This dissertation compares the responses of Italian Jewish and Catholic intellectuals
to the process of secularization and modernization triggered by Italian national unification
(1861-1870). Arguing that, in the case of ...

The main event in Gulf Coast Triple Crown tournaments is the weighing of giant Blue
Marlin at the weigh scales. Blue Marlin have to be a certain size to be killed in
these tournaments, also known as the size limit. The size ...

In this project, I examine why the judicial authority of the United States Supreme
Court has increased. I propose a theoretical explanation of endogenous institutional
change at the Court whereby the actions of ...

This paper constructs jump-robust estimators for the beta in Capital Asset Pricing
Model (CAPM) in order to test the robustness of the recently developed Realized Beta
in the presence of large discontinuous movements, or ...

The United States failed to consider the realities of post-war Iraq prior to entering
the country in 2003. Policymakers assumed the dismantling of Saddam Hussein’s regime
and defense capabilities would bring immediate peace, ...

"K-Ville: A World of Its Own" is an ethnography of one of the most storied and well-known
Duke University traditions: the weeks-long campout on the grounds near Cameron Indoor
Stadium before the Duke-UNC home basketball ...

ABSTRACTThis dissertation examines the theme of beauty in the theology of Karl Barth
and explores its fruitfulness for the practice of theology and two key areas of the
Christian life. It offers a close, contextual reading ...

The city of Durham, North Carolina has a population whose chant is “Keep It Dirty,
Durham.” With a unique character, the location of the food hub of the south, and
an increasingly growing population, Durham’s citizens must ...

Traditionally seen as a time for increasing independence and autonomy, the college
experience is often the first major, long-term physical separation from parents (Chickering,
1969; Chickering & Reisser, 1993). For previous ...

The reduction of waste along the food production chain will help increase sustainability
of the agricultural sector and help improve the quality of the environment overall.
The use of active packaging technology (AP) has ...

In many spatio-temporal applications a vector of covariates is measured alongside
a spatio-temporal response. In such cases, the purpose of the statistical model is
to quantify the change, in expectation or otherwise, in ...